I recently had an issue with my computer and needed to log into my email account to confirm I was the owner of my password manager, LastPass. I really like LastPass and use it every day multiple times. But there is a problem with having a great password manager. While it creates brilliantly challenging to crack passwords, you'll never remember any of them. Their slogan is "the last password you need to remember". Except when you are trying to get into your email account to prove you have the right to access your passwords in LastPass. I still use LastPass, but I no longer let it create the passwords for me. My solution is brilliant. No, I can't claim credit for it. I found it in a small book on Kindle. This is how it works. On any website where you need a password, you take the domain name and add something you'll remember, such as your generic password or a date. And you wrap it with symbols. So, the password for a Google maps account might be #Google/Maps2021#. Yahoo news might be !Yahoo/NewsAcer54&. When you use the same symbols each time and the same standard password, the only variable is the site's domain name, which is in the URL bar for the website. There you go, an easy to remember password that is difficult to crack. To check the strength of your passwords, check out this page https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm, which I believe is the best source of information about passwords. Regards,
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